# Chapter 8. Tips & Tricks for Your Daily Work

"Everyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none." (Fortune Cookies)

Nearly everyone can use KDE; this is why the developers made it. There are no cryptic switches with which to cope, and few configuration files you need edit in ASCII style. However, there are some ways you can do your work more elegantly, saving you time for the truly important things, like tetris.

# 8.1. Shortcut Table

Alt-Esc or Control-Esc

  Shows the KDE session manager, from which you can switch to a specific application or log out of KDE.

Alt-Tab or Alt-Shift-Tab

  Cycle through the windows

Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab

  Cycle through your desktops

Alt-F2

  Command line

Alt-F3

  Window Menu

Alt-F4

  Close the current window

Ctrl-F[1..8]

  Switch to a specific desktop

Ctrl-Alt-Esc

  Window destroyer (every window you click on will be destroyed)

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

  This exits KDE (without saving!) Use this as a last resort

Ctrl-Alt-Numpad +

  Cycles to the next screen resolution

Ctrl-Alt-Numpad -

  Cycles to the previous screen resolution